Provision-safe



(No Model.)

J. SGHRIB.

PROVISION SAFE.

Patented Apr. 26, 1892.

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623M? woes Q UNTTE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J UNI SOHRIB, OF MCGREGOR, TEXAS.

PROVISION-SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,478 dated April 26,1892. Application filed September 3, 1891- Serial No. 404:,6Q8- (N0model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J UNI SOHRIB, a citizen of the United States,residing at McGregor, in the county of McLennan and State of Texas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvem cuts in Provision-Safes; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements inprovision-safes; and it has for its objects, among others, to provide asimple, cheap, and economical safe, in which provisions may be kept coolduring the hot season and from freezing during the winter weather. Iprovide a suitable post or support,

from which extend brackets, shelves, or hooks.

or other provisions for the support of the various articles tobecontained therein. I cover the whole with a cloth and arrange a watertank orrecepta cle at theupper end and arrange to have a stream of waterflow or trickle down upon the cloth to saturate the same and keep itcool. The cloth is suitably held at the upper end, and at the lower endsuitable provision is made for catching the water that tricklestherefrom.

The safe may be made portable or stationary. It may be supported uponany suitable support or it may be suspended in the air. If set in a gooddraft, the evaporation of the water will be greater and the articles inthe safe kept much cooler. In the winter the watertank may be removedand the safe placed or suspended in some warm place. The cloth is soarranged as to be thrown open at one side, when desired to get access tothe interior of the safe.

I provide an attachment for guiding the air to the safe to keep itcooler.

Other objects and advantages of the in vention will hereinafter appear,and the novel features thereof will be specifically defined by theappended claim.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings,which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of thisspecification, and in which- Figure 1 isa side elevation of myimprovedsafe with portions broken away. Fig. 2 is a cross-section through thesame on the line 22 of Fig. 1, looking down.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates asuitable upright, from which are supported the lateral supports B, whichmay be shelves, brackets, arrns, slats, or any other suitable means forsupporting dishes, pitchers, bowls, and the like, the articles beingsupported by resting upon the said shelves or lateral supports or bybeing hung or suspended from hooks or analogous provisions a, as seen inFig. 1. When the safe is designed to rest upon the floor, the upright isprovided with a suitable base-piece O, as seen in Fig. 1; but when it isdesigned to be suspended this base-piece may be omitted, as shown inFig. 2.

D is a cloth surrounding the uprights and lateral supports, as shown,being drawn together at the top, and thus held in any suitablemannerfas, for instance, by a spring or elastic ring I), as shown inFig. 1. The cloth is connected at points to the lateral supports in anysuitable manner, as by the pins 0 or analogous provisions. It should bearranged so that it maybe opened at one side and suitable provisionsmade for holding it closed. At the lower end the cloth is drawntogether, as seen in Fig. 1,and the end arranged to drip into or to beheld within a suitable receptacle E, as shown, so that the water as itdrips from the cloth will be caught. It can be withdrawn from thereceptacles through the cocks d, as seen in Fig. 1.

The safe herein shown is what I call a double safe, and the cloth isconsequently arranged as shown; but it is at once evident that a singlesafe may be constructed on the same principle.

At the upper end of the upright is provided a horizontal support G forthe support of a water tank or receptacle H, which is provided with acook or cocksf, as shown in Fig. 1, arranged over the cloth, so that thewater flowing therethrough will fall upon the cloth and saturate thesame. The flow of water may be regulated to suit the circumstances.

To suspend the safe I provide a bail or pivoted handle I, as seen inFig. 1, or other suitable provision maybe made for this purpose. Thishandle is pivoted to the upright, so that the Water-tank may be readilyinserted or removed when desired.

The arrangement of the cloth may be varied. It may be arranged so as toform two opposite vertical substantially independent circularcompartments, as seen by full lines in Fig. 2, or there may be four, orthree, if desired.

In order to conduct the air onto the cloth, I sometimes provide thewings or arms J, which are pivoted to the horizontal bars K on theupright, as seen in Fig. 2, the said arms being capable of adjustment ormovement upon their pivots, as indicated by the arrows in Fig. 2. Theother arrows indicate the course of the air, which, it will be seen, isthrown or guided inward against the cloth.

The device is simple, cheaply constructed,

and in practice has proved most efficient for the purposes for which itis intended.

\Vhat I claim as new is A provision-safe consisting of a suitableupright, lateral supports therefrom, a cloth around the said supportsand extending from top to bottom of the safe, gathered in at the top andcontracted at the lower end, a watertank supported upon the uprightabove the cloth, suitable means for collecting the water at the bottomof the cloth, and air-conducting wings movably supported from the saidupright, as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my nameinthe presence of two witnesses.

J UNI SOHRIB.

WVitnesses:

JNo. G. OBRYAN, W. T. SPENCER.

